Published on 21 August 2026, the independent Declaration asserts a right for people with experience of forced displacement or statelessness to participate in decisions that directly or indirectly affect their protection and human rights.
Jade Roberts examines the legality of the United Arab Emirates’ 2008 arrangement with the Comoros to provide Comorian passports to the UAE’s stateless bidun population.
Badr Al-Maskari and Abdulwahab Hamid’s article offers an analytical, critical and comparative reading of Omani nationality law under Royal Decree No. 17/2025.
Fernando López Range’s Globalcit post examines the arbitrary deprivation of nationality in Nicaragua. The piece engages the private-international-law dimension through loss of nationality and statelessness.
Bronwen Manby’s article in the International and Comparative Law Quarterly examines normative developments in international law on nationality since 2005.
This article focuses on the citizenship of children born through cross-border surrogacy. It notes the difficulties created by Turkey’s prohibition of surrogacy, the widespread application of the mater semper certa est rule, and the lack of international regulation on parentage in such cases.
Döndü Kuşçu’s article in Terazi Hukuk Dergisi examines the legal status of stateless persons in Türkiye within the framework of the YUKK and the 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.
Ünsal, Hande's academic work “Evaluation of Certain Provisions of the Turkish Nationality Act No. 5901 in the Context of the Goal of "Preventing Statelessness"” was published in Sakarya Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol.
Ecemiş, Sercan's academic work “Acquisition of Turkish Citizenship on the Basis of Place of Birth (Ius Soli)” was published in Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol. 25 No.
Arsava, Füsun's academic work “Loss of Nationality as a Counter-Terrorism Measure in Germany: The Limits of International Law” was published in Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi Dergisi, Vol. 25 No.
In this Netherlands International Law Review article, David Owen considers contemporary predicaments concerning nationality rights through Hannah Arendt’s phrase, ‘the right to have rights’.
Susan M Akram’s article “The Search for Protection for Stateless Refugees in the Middle East: Palestinians and Kurds in Lebanon and Jordan” was published in the International Journal of Refugee Law.
Michelle Foster; Hélène Lambert authored the academic publication “Statelessness as a Human Rights Issue: A Concept Whose Time Has Come” in International Journal of Refugee Law, published on 2016-11-21. The publication forms part of the private-international-law literature concerning Global.
The article addresses claims by Syrian asylum seekers in Turkey that they retain Turkish nationality because their ancestors were citizens of the Ottoman State or the Republic of Hatay.
Laura van Waas’s article in the European Journal of Migration and Law focuses on two limits that structure nationality law in Europe: the avoidance of statelessness and the prohibition of discrimination.